Ingredients

4 cups Red Bud Tea*

4 tablespoons Lemon Juice

4 cups Cane Sugar

1 box *Low Sugar Powder Pectin

*To make redbud tea, fill a 1/2 gallon jar with fresh blooms. (fresh and open blooms, avoid dry flowers and buds, avoid as many leaves/stems as possible) Pour boiling water over blooms to fill up jar. Stir and let sit for about 4 hours. After 4 hours place jar in fridge for 2o hours. After steeping for 24 hours, use a fine strainer or cheese cloth to strain the flowers out, leaving about 4 cups of tea. If short of 4 cups, ad water to make 4 cups.

To make Jelly…

In a large pot, bring 4 cups of tea to a boil.

Stir in lemon juice.

Stir in Pectin and boil for 1 minute.

Add in sugar and boil for 1 minute stirring constantly, then remove from heat.

Immediately ladle jelly into sterile jars, wipe down top of jars and secure lids and rings.

Allow jars to cool.

*Jelly can be water bath canned or placed in fridge.